Mastodawn

i really hope 40 years from now people will look at banning kids from social media the way people now look at the satanic panic of the 80s

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Eniko Fox 3d ago

some of y'all are being real fucking weird about this metaphor and i can't say i super appreciate it

apparently i need to spell this out: both these things are about control, and "won't someone please think about the children" is primarily just pretext, just like it always is

if they gave a shit about the children they'd legislate the companies profiting from it all, not unilaterally yeeting kids out of society's public platforms

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🏳️‍🌈🎃🇧🇷Luana🇧🇷🎃🏳️‍🌈

@eniko They want control, they want surveillance and they want to limit people’s internet access. They want to lock LGBT+ youth away from their support groups, and remove their freedom to form their own opinions. They hate that todays youth is aware that they aren’t their parents property. And they want your face and documents to sell and feed to their AIs and databases.

As much as I’d love to see big tech social media being killed and LGBT+ youth to learn about Fedi, an actually good social media place, banning social media indiscriminately from them (or requiring ID checks to determine which content can be accessed) just takes their support channels away.